Na Dis One Be Love

Ask ten people wetin love be, and you fit get ten different answers. Feeling. Song. Promise. John give different answer. Love, e talk, na something wey God do.

John don old now, di last one among di close friends of Jesus wey still dey alive, as di churches believe. E dey write to Christians wey e dey call, my small children. Some people don leave dia fellowship and follow new ideas. Oda ones dey cold towards one another. So John letter dey come back to one big theme every time. Believe di truth about Jesus, wey come for human body. And love one another. Di two dey together. For chapter four, e join dem together for few lines wey nobody go fit forget.

My beloved, make we love one another, John write, because love na from God. Love dey come from God di way light dey come from di sun. Everybody wey dey love, e talk, na God born am, and e know God. And anybody wey no dey love no know God. Why? Because God na love. No be only say God dey love, even though e dey love. Love na who God be, from inside reach outside. So when we love, we dey show di family likeness. We resemble our Father.

But how we go know how God love be? John point to Christmas. Na for dis way God show im love for us, e write: God send im only Son enter di world, so dat we fit live through am. God love show for open: dem make am visible, something wey you fit see. E look like baby wey dem born for Bethlehem. E look like man wey heal, wey forgive, and wey give im life. And then John talk: na dis one be love, no be say we love God, but say e love us, and e send im Son to be di sacrifice wey dey take away our sins. Love no start from us. Na from am e start.

So wetin follow? My beloved, John write, if God love us like dis, we too suppose love one another. Then e talk something wey go surprise you. Nobody don ever see God. Dat one true; eye no fit see God. But if we love one another, God dey live inside us, and im love dey complete inside us. For oda words, people wey no fit see God fit see something of am when dem see as we dey love each other. For Christmas, God love become something wey people see inside Jesus. Now, people dey see am for di way im people dey love.

One old story dey about John, from di scholar Jerome, wey e write around di year three hundred and eighty-seven. Jerome talk say when John don old well well for Ephesus, dem go carry am enter church meeting. E no fit talk much, and di only thing wey e go talk na, my small children, love one another. When somebody ask am why e dey always talk di same thing, e answer: because na di command of di Lord, and if na only dis one una do, e reach.

Na Dis One Be Love. You go find am for First John chapter four, verse seven to twelve. For Christmas we dey celebrate di moment wey God love become something wey we fit see. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. Nobody don see God, but people fit see us. Wetin dem go learn about God love when dem watch you dis week?